BBC Proms - 2009 - Prom 62: Haydn, Shostakovich - Part 1

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Petroc Trelawny. Mariss Jansons and his Dutch orchestra perform Haydn's Military Symphony, composed on his second visit to London in 1794-95, at a time when England and Holland were allied with Austria against republican France. According to an early review, the slow movement - graphically portraying 'the hellish roar of war increase to a climax of horrid sublimity' - was greeted with repeated cries of 'Encore! in which the Ladies themselves could not forbear to join.' Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Mariss Jansons (conductor) Haydn Symphony No 100 in G (Military).